The Prescription Against Heretics
Tertullian
Chapter 27
About this work
Tertullian argues that apostolic churches possess the proper claim to interpret Christian Scripture and that rival teachers should not be granted equal standing in debates over the inherited rule of faith.
- Author
- Tertullian
- Date
- c. AD 200–210
- Origin
- Carthage, North Africa
- Genre
- Heresiology
Chapter XXVII.—Granted that the Apostles Transmitted the Whole Doctrine of Truth, May Not the Churches Have Been Unfaithful in Handing It On? Inconceivable that This Can Have Been the Case.
Since, therefore, it is incredible that